Gallup ranks Rockford among worst cities for overall well-being

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Mar 25, 2014 at 12:22 PM

Kevin Haas Staff writer @kevinmhaas

The overall well-being of Rockford residents ranked as the 14th worst of 189 cities and communities surveyed by Gallup and Healthways.

This is the sixth year of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, which is meant to be a barometer of Americans' own perception of their well-being. The 2013 rankings, which were released today, are based on more than 500,000 interviews in which people were asked about emotional and physical health, access to food, shelter and health care, job satisfaction, and safety.

There were 539 people from Rockford surveyed for the report. The city ranked 176 out of 189 communities for overall well-being.

Read the report.

Provo, Utah, got the top ranking and Huntington, W. Va., was at the bottom of the list.

The report also ranks Congressional districts. Rockford is split between two districts, which were in the middle of the pack for overall well-being.